Eryn Ashleigh Mathewson

Eryn Ashleigh Mathewson is a print and radio journalist. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and her work has appeared in Women's eNews, Cremé Magazine and 94.1FM KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley.

“Lumping all lesbians into the same pool has been frustrating and stagnating for us,” says the organizer of a recent gathering for black lesbians in New York. Without a single major study on black lesbians, these women say it’s time to focus.

The new sports teams, according to the city’s Department of Education, will come over the next four years as the country’s largest school system responds to a Title IX complaint brought by the National Women’s Law Center.

The Canadian tournament is sure to leave its mark on sports history. It was played in the shadows of a huge FIFA scandal but under a hot summer sun that heated the artificial turf in some fields to 120 degrees Farenheit.

Science watchers on Twitter are overjoyed. In the span of just a few days–far less time than it took Larry Summers to leave Harvard–a Nobel laureate resigned over comments about “the trouble with girls in science.”

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